| Conina said: Do you even know what you are talking about? Steam has no always-online-check. You need to be online to INSTALL the game (which is logical because you have to download the data). If you install from a disc (retail games), Steam needs a one-time internet connection for the activation. After that you can switch to the off-line-mode of Steam and use all your Steam-games weeks or months offline. Sure, if you get your account banned and switch Steam to online-mode, your Steam-games will stop working. But so will digital games you bought on XBL, PSN, Origin, Uplay when your account gets banned... digital X1 games are account-bound and have the same issues! |
Yes, I know it has a window of some months (I believe it's one) before you lose access to your games. So, sooner or later you have to be online. It's just a refined version of the always online DRM with a big timeout. There is a big difference between being able to use it for one month offline or being able to use it offline forever.
Bolded is wrong. The XBL and PSN games don't have this kind of online check. If I get my account banned, I can't access it to download my games again, but the installed copies do work. If I have a backup on a HDD, I can even restore it if my console breaks. I'm not losing my games. In Origin ad uPlay you will lose them, since they use the same DRM that Steam does.
